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I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

Jorge Luis Borges

The flattery of posterity is not worth much more than contemporary flattery, which is worth nothing.
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Flattery Poster Worth
Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
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Cruelty Dictatorship Fact Leadership Oppression Politics
To say good-bye is to deny separation; it is to say Today we play at going our own ways, but we’ll see each other tomorrow. Men invented farewells because they somehow knew themselves to be immortal, even while seeing themselves as contingent and ephemeral.
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Immortal Invention Known Man Play Separate Way
A writer’s work is the product of laziness.
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Lazy Poet Work Writing
There’s no need to build a labyrinth when the entire universe is one.
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Build Need Oneself Universe
I never reread what I’ve written. I’m far too afraid to feel ashamed of what I’ve done.
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Afraid Feeling Myself Reading Shame Writing
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
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Book Death Writing
While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one.
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Awake Fantasy Philosophy Science World
A writer should have another lifetime to see if he’s appreciated.
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Appreciation Life Poet Time Writing
The tango is a direct expression of something that poets have often tried to state in words: the belief that a fight may be a celebration.
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Belief Celebration Direct Expression Fight State
He consorted with prostitutes and poets and with persons even worse.
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People Poet Prostitute Worst
A writer – and, I believe, generally all persons – must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource.
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Believe Myself Resource Writing
The man who acquires an encyclopedia does not thereby acquire every line, every paragraph, every page, and every illustration; he acquires the possibility of becoming familiar with one and another of those things.
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Book Himself Knowledge Man Possibility
Life itself is a quotation.
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Life One Liner
Art is very mysterious. I wonder if you can really do any damage to art. I think that when we’re writing, something comes through or should come through, in spite of our theories. So theories are not really important.
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Art Damage Important Mystery Theory Writing Yourself
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
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Imagination Kind Library Myself Paradise

I saw a sunset in Queretaro that seemed to reflect the color of a rose in Bengal.

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